Outbreak of Popular Science Books Without an Index in the UK

Britain may not be able to lay claim to Gutenberg but we have Caxton and other publishing notables. Myles Coverdale assembled what is thought to be the first complete, unabridged printed translation of the Bible into English.^(a) There is the Manchester Bible that splendidly replaced the beeves of Leviticus with bees or would otherwise have afforded a humbling and eye-popping insight into how much we still need to learn about micro-surgery from the ancients.^(b) The Oxford English Dictionary is a work of extraordinary scholarship and transatlantic cooperation. Penguin Books was founded with the aim of ‘converting book-borrowers into book-buyers’ and showcasing good contemporary fiction.